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Industrial

Partnership for

Research in

Interfacial and

Materials

Engineering

IPRIME

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Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial & Materials Engineering

IPRIME History

• CIE (Center for Interfacial Engineering) – Funded by NSF from 1988 to 1999

– Industrial outreach, 114 resident fellows, 393 PhDs

– Fostered culture of integrated research, education and industrial interaction

• Members encouraged continued collaboration

• IPRIME (Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering)– Legacy organization from CIE

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• Highly Interdisciplinary (47 faculty in 9 departments)

– Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

– Biomedical Engineering

– Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

– Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

– Chemistry

– Electrical and Computer Engineering

– Mechanical Engineering

– Pharmaceutics

– Physics

• Research is Pre-Competitive and Non-Proprietary

• Focus on fundamental science that underlie industrial products and

processes

• 7 Interdisciplinary Research Programs

IndustryA University−Industry Partnership based

on Two-Way Knowledge Exchange

“Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.”- Halford Mackinder

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University

Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial & Materials

Engineering


7 Research Programs

• Biocatalysis and Biotechnology (BB)

• Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM)

• Coating Process Fundamentals (CPF)

• Electronic Materials and Devices (EMD)

• Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics (FEP)

• Microstructured Polymers (MP)

• Nanostructural Materials and Processes (NMP)4


Mitsui

Zeon

Netherlands (1) DSM

Germany (2) BASF, Evonik

Members Across the Globe

Japan (3)

Europe

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China (1)Wanhua ChemicalSaudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco

South Korea (1)SK Chemicals

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/

http://gbp.com/

IPRIME Member Companies


http://www.3m.com/

http://www.ecolab.com/index.asp

http://www.infineum.com/index.html

http://www.tainstruments.com/

Industrial Support

Contributions over $1,400,000 per year from ~33 companies

• Sponsor Membership ($60,000 per year) - Participation in up to 4 research programs

- Opportunity to utilize Industrial Fellow Program

- Representative on the Policy and Planning Board (PPB)

• Affiliate Membership ($48,000 per year)- Focus on one 1 research program, no Industrial Fellow

• Small company option - $7,500 minimum or

- 0.03% of sales per year, up to $48,0007


Why IPRIME?

• Partnership

• Future employees

• Facilities

• Knowledge Transfer

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Partnership

Companies• Scientific exchange with

academic sector

• Influence research

directions

• Leverage government

funding (NSF, NIH, DOE)

• Portal/referral to other U

resources/capabilities

• Industrial Fellows

Faculty & Students • Ready source of “hard

problems”

• Funding support

• Technology

implementation

• Fosters faculty

interactions

• Industrial Fellows9


Company Employee Research Topic Faculty

Boston Scientific Xue Zhen Surface Characterization of graphene Steve Koester

Donaldson Brad Hauser

Advanced Characterization of

Superhydrophobic Heterogeneous Materials Greg Haugstad

DSM

Thomas van

Kempen

Spreading and merging of droplets to make

nanoparticulate coatings Satish Kumar

Ecolab Derrick

Anderson

Synthesis and characterization of carbon

dots using starting materials relevant to solid

cleaning and sanitizing products

Christy Haynes

Mitsui

Ryohei

OgawaSynthesis of cross-linkable aliphatic polyester

elastomers derived from castor oil Marc Hillmyer

Zeon Corporation Hitoshi Oishi

Analysis of liquid crystal molecular

orientation mechanism on retardation films

by coating process Satish Kumar

Zeon Corporation

Kousuke

Isobe

Synthesis of new block polymers for

membrane applications by microstructured

polymer Marc Hillmyer

Industrial Fellows

Future Employees

Companies• Early access to PhD students

• Most graduates work at

IPRIME companies

• Early student access to

employers

• Learn industrial research

process and interactions

• Hone communication skills

• Resumes distributed

Annual Meeting Poster Session

Faculty & Students

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Supporting Facilities

Companies• CharFac*

(training + analysis)

• Imaging Center

• Polymer Characterization Facility*

• Polymer Synthesis

• Coating Process and Visualization Lab

• Tissue Mechanics*

Faculty and Students• In-kind equipment contributions

• Industrial utilization of facilities

*Discount for IPRIME members12


❖ Hard & soft materials, liquids,

bio/medical, enviro/geo/archeo

❖ Training/mentoring/consultation

❖ Analytical services, methods

development, collaboration

❖ Workshops & short courses

❖ → EXPERTISE

U. of Minnesota Characterization Facility

www.charfac.umn.edu

Clientele: “Like a national lab”

Other pertinent facilities on campus:State-of-the-art light microscopy (superresolution, etc.): University Imaging Center (Nikon Ctr Excellence)Rheology/DSC/TGA, NMR, Mass spectrom., X-ray tomography/electron microprobe Micro-/Nano-fabrication, Bioprocessing (fermentation, etc.)

Recent additions

• >$20 million of equipment (replacement value)

❖ Electron microscopes: 5 TEM, 4 SEM/FIB; cryo, EDS/EELS/EBSD…

❖ X-ray scattering: 7 wide- & 1 small-angle; micro, T-dep., 2D detectors

❖ Surface analytical: 2 XPS, UPS, Auger, sputtering, microtensiometry

❖ Proximal probes: 3 ambient & 2 environmental AFMs; UHV/LT-STM,

stylus profilometer, 3 nanoindentors, pin-on-disk tribom., AFM-IR

❖ Chemical spectro/microscopy: confocal Raman, FTIR (ATR/DRIFTS)

❖ Thin film analysis: RBS w/PIXE/FReS, spectroscopic ellipsometry

• ~10 FTE scientific staff (permanent)

• ~500-600 end users/yr, ~100 external (incl. clients)

• ~140 faculty users/yr from ~35 UMN depts/units

• ~250 students/yr in curricular & short courses

• ~40-50 industrial users/clients per year

• ~15 external academic

institutions per year

XPS/UPS,

cluster beam

Dual-beam FIB/SEM

WAXS & SAXS

AFM-IR

X-ray Diffraction & Scattering (8)• Bruker AXS (Siemens) D5005 XRD

• Pananalytical X’pert Pro high-angular resolution XRD (reflectivity, in-plain diffr, rocking curves, reciprocal space maps)

• Bruker AXS micro-XRD (2D detector, 2-axis sample tilt)

• Bruker D8 Discover micro-XRD (2D detector, 2-axis sample tilt)

• Bruker D8 Advance XRD with temperature and humidity control

• Laue diffractometer (crystal orientation)

• Xenocs/SAXSLAB Ganesha SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS (coming soon)

Ion Beam Analysis (elemental composition, depth profiles)• Rutherford backscattering (RBS); FReS, PIXE/PIGE, NRA

• NEC 5.1 MeV accelerator, He+, He++ and H+ beams

• Goniometer, channeling : depth/element-specific crystallinity

Surface analytical (elemental, chemical, sputter-profiling)• Phi versaProbe III XPS/ESCA withUPS: monochromated, small

spot, angle resolved; cluster beam sputter profiling (just added)

• SSI XPS (monochromated)

• Auger spectroscopy (AES; scanning microscope, depth profiling)

• Micro contact angle system with high-speed camera (dynamic)

Vibrational spectroscopy (chemical, 3D imaging)• Thermo FTIR spectrometer (DTGS and MCT detectors), Transm.,

Refl., ATR, DRIFTS; FTIR microscope

• Witec confocal Raman spectrometer/microscope; full spectroscopic imaging in XY and XZ; 532-nm and 785-nm lasers with dedicated spectrometers; down to 30 cm-1 vibrations

Visible light based analysis &imaging (also see U Imaging Ctr)

• Woollam spectroscopic ellipsometer (film thickness and optical constant characterization over λ=200-1100 nm)

• Nikon light microscope - bright/dark field, polarization, phase, fluorescence, differential interference contrast (DIC)

Scanning & Transmission Electron Microscopes & FIB (11)• JEOL 6500 FE-SEM (BS, EDS, EBSD, cathodoluminescence)

• JEOL 6700 FE-SEM (high-resolution)

• Hitachi SU8220 FE-SEM (ThermoNoran EDS, high-res., cryo, BS/mix)

• Hitachi S-4700 FE-SEM (cryo, BS)

• FEI Helios NanoLab G4 dual-beam FIB/FE-SEM (just added)

• JEOL 1200 EX Bio-TEM (LaB6)

• FEI Tecnai G2 Spirit Bio-Twin (cryo/bio) (LaB6)

• FEI T12 TEM (LaB6 with EDS)

• FEI Tecnai G2 F30 FEG-TEM (EF-TEM, cryo/bio, 2-axis tilt for tomog.)

• FEI Tecnai G2 F30 FEG-TEM (EELS, EDS, STEM, HAADF)

• FEI Titan aberration-corrected FEG-TEM (EDX, EELS, STEM, HAADF)

• Two full suites of specimen prep tools (for SEM/TEM + AFM/Raman): hard and soft materials, biological; two cryo-microtomes

Proximal nanoprobes: AFM, nanoindentors & related (10)• Omicron ultrahigh vacuum STM/STS LT system (coming soon)

• Two Bruker Nanoscope V Multimode 8 SPMs (with PeakForce QNM, EFM, MFM, KPFM, FMM, fast force volume)

• Intermodulation Products add-on to Bruker SPMs (just added)

• Two Keysight 5500’s (closed loop scanners, current sensing, T/RH control, easy fluid cells, multifrequency); inverted light microscope

• WITec digital pulsed force mode add-on to Keysight 5500

• Anasys nanoTA2 + SThM add-on (heated tip) to Keysight 5500s.

• LabView / custom methods (setpoint ramping, FT shear modulation)

• Hysitron Triboindentor (mapping)

• Hysitron Picoindentor (in situ indentation, inside TEM)

• Keysight Nanoindentor XP (AC loading, storage/loss modulus)

• Custom-built micromechanical tester (IBM MMT)

• Tencor stylus profilometer (up to 14’’ wide, 2” thick samples)

CharFac instruments: data-generating systems (38)

Details at www.charfac.umn.eduNot listed: ~30 ancillaries (mainly specimen prep tools)

Chris Frethem SEM (cryo and bio/soft material emphasis)

Dr. Javier Garcia-

BarriocanalXRD, Small-angle X-Ray scattering, IBA, ellipsometry

Dr. Bob Hafner High-contrast and cryo TEM (bio, soft materials)

Dr. Greg Haugstad AFM, Ion beam analysis (IBA: RBS, PIXE, FReS & related)

Dr. Han Seung Lee SEM/TEM (cryo emphasis)

Dr. Bing Luo Confocal Raman/FTIR, XPS/Auger, micro-contact angle

Dr. Jason Myers FEG-TEM (HR/STEM/EDS/EELS), FIB

Dr. John Nelson (0.1 FTE) Nano/micro-mechanical, profilometry

Dr. Geoff Rojas Auger/XPS, STM/AFM, TEM

Dr. Nick Seaton Materials SEM, EDS/EBSD/cathodoluminescence

Dr. Seema Thakral (0.6

FTE)XRD, Small-angle X-Ray scattering

Dr. Wei Zhang (0.45 FTE) Cryo FEG-TEM, 3D reconstruction, tomography

Fang Zhou, MSBio EM specimen prep, (cryo)microtomy, TEM (bio, soft

material)

CharFac Technical Staff

13 professionals (11.15 FTE) manage 3-site capabilities.

Includes expert analytical services, education/training,

assistance/consultation, methods development, collaboration.

Contact Information at www.charfac.umn.edu/staff

Electron microscopy

X-ray scattering

Proximal probes

Vibrational spectroscopy

Surface Analytical

Thin film analysis

Analytical services (proprietary/commercial)

• Sample analysis by facility staff. (High commercial charge rates.)

• 1/3 discount on instrument time with IPRIME consortium membership.

Sponsored projects (full overhead-bearing; well-defined contract)

• Fund grad student, postdoc and/or staff scientist(s) under University principal

investigator. (Low internal charge rates.)

IPRIME consortium collaborations (no overhead, no contract or deliverables)

• Collaborate on publishable research with an IPRIME principal investigator and his/her

colleagues, no hands-on usage of CharFac. (Low internal charge rates.)

• Become an industrial fellow in collaboration with IPRIME principal investigator on

publishable research. May include hands-on usage at low internal charge rates.

Hands-on (proprietary/commercial)

• Obtain training for independent use of instruments (at high charge rates).

Methods development collaboration (no UMN overhead, no contract or deliverables)

• Fund CharFac technical staff member(s) on publishable methods research (academic

instrument rates, no hands-on). Modeled after IPRIME industrial fellow program.

Sought usage of the Characterization Facility by Industry

Knowledge Transfer

Annual Meeting*(May 26-28, 2020)

o Workshops

o Program Reviews

o Two-Night Poster Session

o Plenary Luncheon

o TAC & PPB Meetings

Mid-Year Workshops*o January 14, 2020

Website with members-only features*o Webcasts, Research Information, Exclusive Presentations

Short Courses (member discounts)

o Coating Process Fundamentals (May 19 -21, 2020)o Rheological Measurements (June 7-12, 2020)

Industrial Fellows (non-proprietary)

Sponsored Research (proprietary) Gifts (non-proprietary)

*Free to

members

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IPRIME Member Events & ResourcesSampling of events shown. See full details at www.iprime.umn.edu

2018 Annual MeetingMay 29-31, 2018

Featuring presentations on:

• Droplet-Based Coating and Printing

• Polymer Nanocomposites: Preparation, Structure, &

Properties

• Bio Polymers and Materials

• Preparation & Processing of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical

Materials

• Advances in Flexible Electronics and OLED Displays

• Material Options for Transparent Conductive Oxides

• Characterization-focused Industrial Fellow Collaborative

Projects: Examples, Opportunities, & Challenges

Mid-Year Workshops

January 9-10, 2018• “3D Printing of Polymers: Materials and Processes” (CPF

& MP) Jan 9, 2018

• “Remote Imaging of Implanted Biomaterials and

Theranostics” (BPM) Jan 10, 2018

Short Courses

• Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course

(May 22- 24, 2018)

• Rheology Short Course

(August 12-17, 2018)

2019 Annual MeetingMay 28-30, 2019

Featuring presentations on:

• New Developments in Coating

• Sustainability of Polymers

• From Commodity to Value-Added Surfactants: Structure,

Phase Behavior, and Applications

• Synthetic Biology: An Overview of Industrial Potential.

• Wearable Technology -- Materials and Applications II

• Scalable Photonics and Metamaterials

• Ultra-Wide Gap Materials for High-Powered Electronics

Mid-Year Workshops

January 15-17, 2019• “Wearable Technology – Materials and Applications”

• “Characterization Methods for Surfaces, Interfaces and

Thin Films”

Short CoursesCoating Process Fundamentals Short Course

(May 21-23, 2019)

Rheology Short Course

(August, 2020)

www.iprime.umn.edu

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Membership Benefits

• Access to latest research results

• Influence on research directions

• Access to world-class faculty expertise

• Early access to PhD students

• Career development for scientists/engineers

– Industrial Fellows program

• Reduced rates at supporting labs

• Networking with other IPRIME companies


7 Research Programs

• Biocatalysis and Biotechnology (BB)

• Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM)

• Coating Process Fundamentals (CPF)

• ElectronicMaterials and Devices (EMD)

• Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics (FEP)

• Microstructured Polymers (MP)

• Nanostructural Materials and Processes (NMP)21


Biocatalysis and Biotechnology (BB)

Investigator Department Expertise

Mikael Elias * Biochem Protein engineering and evolution, molecular modelling and

recognition, bioremediation and quorum quenching

strategies.

Mark Distefano Chem Organic and biochem., protein conjugates for therapeutic

and biotechnology applications.

Wei-Shou Hu CEMS Systems biotechnology, biochemical engineering, cell

culture bioprocessing, stem cell technology

Romas Kazlauskas Biochem Biocatalytic synthesis of chemical intermediates and

biofuels, enzyme modification for new reactions.

Ping Wang BBE Enzymology and biocatalysis, bioconversion and

biosynthesis, biomaterials and functional coatings,

bioelectrochemical processing, biosensors.

Lawrence Wackett Biochem Enzymes in biotechnology, immobilization technology,

bioremediation, computer prediction tools for biocatalysis

*Program Leader (Email: [email protected]; Phone: 612-626-1915)

Chemical and fuel bioprocessing; Biocatalyst engineering; Biotransformation and Bioremediation;

Enzyme evolution; Bio-based polymers and biocoatings; Pathway engineering; Synthetic biology;

Systems biotechnology; Cell culture bioprocessing

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM)

• Biomaterials for drug delivery, medical device coatings, and tissue engineering

• Drug/medical device combinations, characterization of drug/materials interactions

• Cell-based fabrication of bioartificial tissues

• Novel tissue mechanical testing and analysis methods


Ron Siegel* Phm1/BME2 hydrogels, drug delivery systems, microfabrication

Wei Shen BME bioactive materials

Calvin Sun Phm drug crystal and particle engineering

Raj Suryanarayanan Phm solid state properties of drugs, stability of

drug/biomaterial formulations

Bob Tranquillo BME/CEMS fabrication and characterization of bioartificial

cardiovascular replacement tissues

Chun Wang BME bio-molecular materials, polymer-based DNA and

drug delivery, protein-based tissue scaffolds

*Program Leader (Email:[email protected])

Affiliated Investigators: Marc Hillmyer, Theresa Reineke, Tom Hoye,

Pharmaceutics; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chemistry

Coating Process Fundamentals


Lorraine F. Francis* CEMS Solidification, stress development, microstructure, printing

Satish Kumar CEMS Transport processes, interfacial phenomena,microfluidics

Marcio S. Carvalho** Fluid mechanics, rheology, numerical methods

Alon V. McCormick CEMS Curing, thermodynamics & kinetics, NMR, stress development

C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS Printing processes, printed electronics

Xiang Cheng CEMS Colloids, polymers, rheology, visualization

Wieslaw Suszynski*** CEMS Coating process experiments, apparatus, flowvisualization

Associated Investigators: Cari S. Dutcher, Sungyon Lee

*Program Leader

**Pontifica Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro

***Research Engineer and Coating Process and Visualization Laboratory Manager

Electronic Materials and Devices (EMD)


Steven Koester* ECE Electronic devices, semiconductors

Bharat Jalan* CEMS Complex oxides, molecular beam epitaxy

Steve Campbell ECE Thin-film photovoltaics, 2D materials

Paul Crowell Physics Magnetism, transport, ultra-fast spectroscopy

Dan Frisbie CEMS Organic electronics, electrolyte gating

Chris Leighton CEMS Electronic/magnetic properties, film/layer growth

Collaborators

Andre Mkhoyan (CEMS), Xiaodong Xu (U. Washington), Ludwig Bartels (UCR), Chris Palmstrøm (UCSB),

Chris Kim (ECE)

* Co-Program Directors

Synthesis, structural and chemical characterization of materials relevant for a wide range of electronic,

optical and magnetic devices. Particular emphasis is placed on the understanding of the fundamentals of

electronic structure and transport in electronic and magnetic materials, in addition to the materials science,

physics and chemistry of the interfaces and nanostructures that play a vital role in device operation.

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Russell Holmes* CEMS Thin films, LEDs, solar cells

David Blank CHEM Ultrafast optical spectroscopy

Chris Douglas CHEM Molecular synthesis

Vivian Ferry CEMS Optical materials, plasmonics,

metamaterials, nanocrystals

C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS TFTs and printed electronics

Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics (FEP)

Interested in the design of materials, device architectures, and processes

For the realization of flexible electronics and optoelectronics

based on organic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials

*Program Leader

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Microstructured Polymers (MP)


Chris Ellison * CEMS Composites, thin films, lithography fibers,

photopolymerization, & polymer processing

Frank S. Bates CEMS Thermodynamics, scattering, synthesis

Michelle Calabrese CEMS Rheology and processing, in situ scattering,

new techniques and analyses

Kevin Dorfman CEMS Modeling, confined polymers, DNA

Marc A. Hillmyer CHEM Polymer synthesis and characterization

(Director: Polymer Synthesis Facility)

Timothy P. Lodge CHEM/CEMS Polymer dynamics, solutions, scattering

Chris Macosko CEMS Rheology, processing

Mahesh Mahanthappa CEMS Polymer Science and Engineering

David C. Morse CEMS Theory and modeling

Theresa Reineke CHEM Biomedicine, Diagnostics, Targeted Delivery

Collaborators include:

Lorraine Francis (CEMS), Dan Frisbie (CEMS), Tom Hoye (CHEM), Chris Leighton (CEMS),

Ron Siegel (PHRM), Bill Tolman (CHEM)

Synthesis, characterization, dynamics, processing, properties, and theory

*Program leader

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Investigator Dept Expertise

Alon McCormick* CEMS Reaction Engineering of Materials Synthesis;

Spectroscopy; Molecular Simulation

C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS Molecular Materials and Interfaces; Molecular Electronics

Wayne Gladfelter CHEM Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Scanning Probe

Microscopy

Greg Haugstad CHAR FAC AFM Scanning Probe Microscopy (Director,

Characterization Facility)

Christy Haynes CHEM Porous and plasmonic nanomaterials, nanoparticle toxicity

R. Lee Penn CEMS Environmental Solid State Chemistry

Andreas Stein CHEM Solid State Chemistry of Porous Materials

Joe Zasadzinski CEMS Molecular Fluids, Optical/Electron/Scanning Probe

Microscopy

* Program Leader

Nanostructural Materials & Processes (NMP)

Synthesis, phase behavior, structure, and performance of

surfactants and self-assembled molecular and colloid systems

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